Comments on: Changing bankshttp://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/30/changing-banks/
A slice of lime in the sodaSun, 26 Oct 2014 19:05:02 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3By: mwolffhttp://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/30/changing-banks/comment-page-1/#comment-10670
Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:27:31 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/30/changing-banks/#comment-10670Thanks, Felix, for taking note of credit unions. As not-for-profit co-ops, their rates are generally better and fees lower than banks of all stripes. Good to see that a number of commenters are making this point on the Huffington Post site as well. There are DataTrac daily bank vs credit union average rate comparisons and a credit union locator tool, the most comprehensive in the industry actually, at www.creditunion.coop (click on “locate a credit union”).
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Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:51:37 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/30/changing-banks/#comment-10632Felix, you’re right on target with regards to credit unions. Check out the campaign called Bank With Texans (http://bankwithtexans.org/) that was profiled in The New York Times recently. It was started by Texas Dow Employees Credit Union. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/busine ss/media/02adco.html
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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:40:33 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/30/changing-banks/#comment-10561Felix, I’m a long-time reader. Thanks for the post. If consumers want another tool to help them locate a credit union, they can use www.culookup.com. (Disclaimer, that web site is sponsored by my employer’s subsidiary. But that aside, I think it is fairly effective.)
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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:55:40 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/30/changing-banks/#comment-10557If you’re serious about your money, you have to be willing to invest more than two clicks in deciding where to put it. True, though, that’s about all the time it takes to realize there has to be a better banking choice than BofA.

The rest is up to you.

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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:29:36 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/30/changing-banks/#comment-10552pickandroll, I have done just that, and it was worth it to get rid of my BofA account.
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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:49:25 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/30/changing-banks/#comment-10549Nothing is hard about it OnTheTimes, until you make some minor error in switching over one of your many auto-pay set ups and end up getting slammed with ridiculous late fees from some credit card or utility company.
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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:43:10 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/30/changing-banks/#comment-10543http://baselinescenario.com/2009/10/13/d iana-farrell-and-the-white-house-theory- of-bank-size/#comment-30409
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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:05:21 +0000http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/12/30/changing-banks/#comment-10540Why is it hard to move your account to a new bank? You open an account at a new bank and then stop writing checks on your old account, and a month or two later, close the old account. What is so hard about that?
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